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 joined The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago in January of 1999.
Mr. Crabtree was born in Tripoli, Libya. He began dancing at fourteen and
trained under scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American
Ballet in NY.
He was asked to join the New York City Ballet in 1980 and danced
principal roles in a wide variety of ballets, such as Balanchine’s A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM, VIENNA WALTZES, THE NUTCRACKER, SERENADE, Jerome Robbin’s DANCES
AT A GATHERING, IN THE NIGHT and THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, to name a few. Mr. Crabtree
toured with the NYCB nationally and internationally. He has performed on the television in
BOURNONVILLE DANCES, which was telecast as part of a PBS Dance in America series,
and the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. He
was also invited to The Stars Shine for the Acropolis in Athens, Greece where he
danced the “Black Swan Pas de Deux” with Valentina Kozlova. In 1989, Mr.
Crabtree danced the title role of Oscar Wilde in the premiere of the Irish National
Ballet’s production, OSCAR, choreographed by Domy Reiter-Soffer. In 1990, he danced
the “White Swan Pas de Deux” with Darci Kistler at the National Theatre in
Taiwan. From 1990-92, he was a principal with the Miami City Ballet in which he was
featured in many Balanchine and Christensen works. Mr. Crabtree has appeared as a
principal guest artist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet dancing “Black Swan”
and PAQUITA. Also, he was featured in Ballet Austin’s ROMEO AND JULIET and CARMEN.
Most recently Mr. Crabtree performed with a New York City based company, “Ballet: The
Daring Project” co-directed by Valentina Kozlova and choreographer Margo Sappington.
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